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To what length will we go to avoid loneliness?Facebook may once have been the one-word answer to that question, but for the hundreds of millions flocking to engage in ebocloud.com, “friending” seems frivolous by comparison. In the “great belonging” of the cloud, few stop to consider what sacrifices are being made as they work together with their “ebo cousins” to build a more loving society, under the leadership of ebocloud’s idealistic architect, Radu Cajal.

For New York artist Ellison Luber, however, the losses are not abstract — they are immediate and personal. While nearly oblivious to the ebocloud humanitarian movement, Ellie’s insular life is violently upended by an attack that takes the life of his neighbor and sends his girlfriend in flight from the police. And most astoundingly, this and other crimes he experiences are traceable to ebocloud, the same organization dedicated to the new humanitarian enlightenment of the world.

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This is a dialog between Michael Anissimov, co-editor of H+ magazine, and Rick Moss, author of the recent book Ebocloud, which explores futuristic social networks combined with brain-computer interface technology. Republished here courtesy H+ magazine.

You can always tell when you’ve got a bona fide crackpot idea. You’ll hear one or more of the following responses: A) They’ll never let you do that. B) That’ll never work. C) They’ll put you in jail. D) You’re gonna get us all killed.

I was recently treated to a personal anecdote about a thirty-something man who broke off a months-old relationship with his girlfriend after learning on Facebook that she hadn’t been truthful about her age.